Dave Reichert: a Bush league Republican

The Republican House leadership has worked hard to help Rep. Dave Reichert craft an image as an independent moderate… an image he needs to maintain if he’s to have a hope of winning reelection in Washington’s moderate, independent-leaning 8th Congressional District. Indeed, Reichert publicly admitted as much:

“Back in Washington, there are lots of games played. […] Sometimes the leadership comes to me and says, “Dave, we want you to vote a certain way.” Now, they know I can do that over here, that I have to do that over here. In other districts, that’s not a problem, but here I have to be able to be very flexible in where I place my votes. […] That’s where I need to be in a fifty-fifty district.”

The fact is Reichert has never cast a single vote against the White House or the House leadership when it really mattered, and now Karl Rove is rewarding him for his loyalty by sending President Bush on a rare visit to campaign for a House Republican in his home district. On Friday, the President will appear at high-donor fundraiser in Medina, where he expects to raise over half a million dollars on behalf of Reichert. And if the media does its job explaining the context of this visit, it should come at a political price.

Make no mistake: President Bush is making an extraordinary effort on behalf of the 8th CD’s freshman congressman because he knows that Reichert is a reliable vote. And Reichert is welcoming Bush into his district because he is a staunch supporter of the President and his policies.

As November approaches, the Republicans will attempt to localize the election by trying to make it a race between the silver-haired sheriff and an unknown, untested newcomer. But voters need to understand that this race in this district is about whether we want to leave our nation’s future in the hands of President Bush and the GOP leadership, unchecked and unbalanced. A couple weeks ago Democratic pollster Celinda Lake told a local audience that the Democrats cannot take back the House without winning WA-08.

If you had any doubt that Reichert is little more than just one more rubber stamp in our Republican controlled rubber stamp Congress, President Bush’s visit Friday should put it to rest. Reichert is as loyal a Republican as they come.

President Bush’s visit also makes one other important statement about this race: that it is incredibly tight and that Republicans are incredibly worried. Few GOP candidates are willing to appear with such an unpopular President, but well… Reichert desperately needs the money. Darcy Burner shocked both the GOP and the Democratic establishment by outraising the incumbent in the first quarter, and Reichert needs a huge second quarter to reassure his base. The President’s visit will do that for him.

Rather than despair, Democrats are turning lemons into lemonade. The Burner campaign is asking you to give as much as you can in the days before and after Bush’s visit, to help offset Reichert’s presidential-visit cash advantage. The campaign has set an ambitious $75,000 goal, and I urge you to contribute directly. The campaign has set up a special donation page where you can track the progress.

I also urge you to share your voice. A rally will be held Friday at Westlake Center, starting at 11:15 AM. President Bush’s very public embrace of Reichert is big news, and we want to give the media every reason to cover it.

Yeah, we need more cowardly democrats to sell out to Mexico and give amnesty to illegals. And while you’re at it, you want em to draw Social Security if they pay in using fake ID. Check out Cantwell’s vote.

Not that any of the inbred rightie morons on this site will understand the distinction between their fantasy world and fact, but it is REPUBLICAN GEORGE BUSH who is proposing AMNESTY for illegals. Get over it.

I guess I will be having to look at my credit card records really carefully during the next few weeks. Hopefully, you actually did something this stupid. That way, the King County Journal and KVI can cover this hot story about identity theft and credit card fraud by Darcy Burner supporters. Maybe even Frank Blethen can write an editorial about it.

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Commentby HOW CAN YOU BE PROUD TO BE A PART OF LYING REPUBLICAN CORRUPT INEPTNESS— 6/14/06@ 8:36 pmspews:

11 Cantwell (D-Mexico) must think Bush is pretty smart. Cantwell voted for amnesty and to give Social Security to illegal aliens. Even Bush is smart enough to oppose Cantwell’s raid on Social Security.

Why are the Democrats holding a rally for Darcy Burner on Friday at 11:15 a.m. at Westlake Center? It isn’t in the 8th congressional district, and really isn’t even close, all things considered.

If the Democrats can’t find any suitable venues for a Burner rally in Medina (near where the Bush fundraiser for Reichert will be held), there are plenty of places in and around downtown Bellevue (not too far from Medina, and definitely in the right district) to hold a Burner rally. There are even a few Democrats in and around Bellevue.

Could it be that the only Democrats who really care for and feel strongly about Darcy Burner live in Seattle, and not in Bellevue or other parts of the 8th congressional district?

Maybe Darcy Burner can join with Heather McKey at Friday’s rally in Westlake Center, and denounce the recent brutal murder of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi by the Bush regime. I am sure that a lot of Democrats in Seattle are extremely upset that Bush has perpetrated such a heinous war crime.

Seattle Times Letters to the Editor Tuesday, June 13, 2006

“Have we entered a new era of barbarism? I wake up to front-page news that we have killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with air strikes in Iraq and that this killing is being hailed by political leaders here and abroad. What happened to due process? Since when do we brazenly bomb foreign nations to kill individuals in those nations? ….

What is shocking is that the public is accepting this so wholeheartedly. Are we so xenophobic and arrogant that we don’t understand how important it is that the rule of law be applied to all human beings in all nations at all times?”

Did I miss the announcement? Is Soros running for office? If not, why is this relevant? Standard GOP playbook. Mischaracterize the progressive position and then attack the strawman created. If this doesn’t work, go after people personally.

Why should a person’s legal or illegal status determine eligibility for Social Security? Shouldn’t that depend on how much taxes they paid into the system? If a person works and has Social Security taxes deducted from their paychecks, how do you justify denying the benefits they paid taxes for?

Another point is that many illegals work under stolen SSN’s. If that SSN belongs to a living person, then they are paying taxes into someone else’s account. Their payroll deductions will increase the earnings of record, and consequently benefits, of the person whose SSN they’re using who is likely an American citizen — maybe even you.

“The inbred baby raping right wingers must be worried. To bring the Pretender & Thief all the way to Washington shows just how worried they are about Darcy.” Commentby RightEqualsStupid— 6/14/06@ 10:25 pm

Bush is gonna burn 667 barrels of oil just to raise money for Reichert. Expect gas prices to go up another nickel next week.

Speaking of Reichert, Goldy calling him “Bush league” is an understatement! Reichert hasn’t even hugged a rabbit! Darcy Burner had no problem figuring out how to hug a rabbit. She did it on her first try. Why can’t Reichert figure out how to hug a rabbit?

If you live in the 8th C.D., who do you want representing you in Congress – a rabbit lover, or am idiot who doesn’t know how to hug a rabbit?

A couple days ago, one of the troll idiots, sillyguy, proposed amending the state constitution to require revotes in close elections. That’s one of the stupidest ideas I’ve ever heard. (Also one I’m sure Karl Rove won’t endorse.) I called it “a flying machine that won’t fly.” (Click here for photo of sillyguy’s idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.....hopter.JPG)

Hey, if we’re gonna get involved with amending constitutions, let’s pass a sensible amendment. No, I’m not talking about banning gay marriage or some nonsense like that — I’m talking about the constitutional crisis in the 8th C.D.!

Let’s amend U.S. Const. Art. I, Sec. 1 to read:

“No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen; nor anyone who has not hugged a rabbit.”

Anyone who can’t figure out how to hug a rabbit sure as hell can’t balance a two-trillion-dollar budget or make intelligent decisions on issues like war and peace.

Did anyone else watch Coulter on Jay Leno? Talk about coddling criminals, Leno protected that bitch like she was a spotted owl! Packed the audience with right-wingers (I didn’t hear a single boo) and let her spout her drivel unchallenged. I sure am disappointed in him … how big a bribe did he take?

Hey, did you catch that singer on his show right after Coulter’s appearance? She had a sticker on her guitar that said, “This machine kills fascists.” Now there’s a sexy babe! Who knows, if you call the phone number in that blog ad, you might get a date with her!

As for Coulter, she’s gonna need her ill-gotten millions to pay for face lifts, starting right now. She’s not aging well. Years of drinking cheap booze are starting to show. And her legs look like popsicle sticks.

Leno should have invited a rabbit to be on the show with the Coulter-bitch. What’s with these Republicans and rabbits? They got a hate on for rabbits? It seems so.

This is what I would have said to Coulter on national TV.

“Coulter, you’re both a liar, and a hypocrite! I’m a liberal, and I believe in God, and so do 96.3% of the other liberals I know, so what’s this bullshit about ‘Godless’ liberals?

“Oh, and while we’re on the subject of God, I want to ask you if you believe in Jesus and His teachings. Of course, that’s a rhetorical question, because your personal philosophy is as far removed from Jesus as it’s possible to get.

“Jesus was for the poor; you hate and exploit the poor. Jesus reserved his greatest affection for criminals and outcasts; you love only the rich, and your own money. Jesus threw your kind out of the temple — and left little doubt that you’re going to Hell, although with your skinny chest and skinny legs, who knows, you might be able to squeeze through the eye of that needle.”

“But suppose a liberal somewhere doesn’t believe in God, is an agnostic, or an atheist. So what? What’s that to you? Who cares if liberals are religious or not? Plenty of conservatives are religious, and it does them no good. They’re just as evil, and they’re going to Hell. In fact, maybe this is a chicken-and-egg deal — I’ve noticed the more conservative people are, the more Jesus they need! Yeah, these people spending Sundays in church is a good thing. It would be even better if they spent seven days a week in church, because it would take them off the streets, and the rest of us would be a lot safer.”

Hey all you God-fearin’, Bible-thumpin’, wingnut trollfucks! I’m making FUN of your phony religious pretensions and fake Christianity! If you don’t like it, go commit an abominal act with an armadillo — it won’t cost you anything, because you’re already an abomination, and you’re going to Hell anyway.

Did everyone hear about that ignorant coward Bush making fun of the blind reporter for wearing sunglasses at the press conference? Man that right wing, draft dodging asshole proves even republicans find ways to get lower than whale shit!

Give me one position that darcy has that differs from the dem leadership. Be honest – you have no opposition to a rubber stamp, you just want one for your own party. darcy will do whatever her masters in the party tell her to do. She has no voice of her own, she has no record of her own, she exists merely as the anti-reichert.

Not that you have any credibility Janet S as a full-time paid shill for the GOP but I have to tell you that defending your guy by attacking our girl shows just how weak your side is.

Let me ask you this. If your kid throws a rock though the neighbor’s window, and you confront him, and he says, “Well Timmy did it too.” Do you let it slide? See that’s how you people respond to everything. Is your son excused from his bad behavior by pointing to someone else?

The fact is, we DO have a record on Sheriff Davie and his record shows he’s a Bush brown noser. If you support Bush, vote for Sheriff Davie. If you are in the majority (according to even right wing Faux News polls) and don’t support Bush, then vote for Darcy.

And by the way, if all Darcy was – was the anti-Sheriff Davie…that’s good enough for me.

What evidence do you have that Darcy will “do whatever her masters” tell her to do. Cite the EVIDENCE. Yeah I know, you’re just connecting your ass to your mouth like you always do. No evidence. Just right wing talking points.

1) They created the largest federal agency in history – Homeland Security 2) They authored the largest federal budget in history 3) They want government to tell us who to marry and have sex with and when it’s okay to die

They say they are pro-life yet,

1) They love the death penalty 2) They don’t want to see public money go to save lives with health care assistance 3) They bomb the fuck out of Iraq 4) Several prominent republicans are pro-choice 5) More abortions have occured under Bush than Clinton

They say they are for fiscal responsibility yet,

1) More government spending has occured under their watch than ever before 2) They created the largest deficit in history

They say they are for security yet,

1) They defunded the security budget for the country’s biggest terror target New York

What are the limits of human depravity? History teaches us there are none. How far would Republicans go in exploiting human beings for their own selfish gain if they held absolute sway over our country? History teaches us the human capacity for greed, selfishness, cruelty, and evil is a bottomless pit. All you have to do is look at what happened to the native peoples of the Carribbean and Mexico when Spaniards and other Europeans showed up in the New World. They turn into slaves, worked to death in mines under appalling conditions, butchered … they were exterminated. All for money; all to seize the New World’s wealth and send it home to the mother country; all so the conquistadors could live in bigger homes and wear finer clothes and make their fellow citizens suck up to them in their native countries. This story has been repeated many times in recorded human history.

What KNOW what kind of stuff Republicans are made of, what their values are — how they treat their fellow man. Few things symbolize that better than Congress’s refusal last year to raise the federal minimum wage, which has been stuck at $5.15 since the early 1990’s. Republicans don’t believe in ANY minimum wage. If they could make people work for 50 cents an hour … they would! … AND they would go out of their way to deny any kind of food assistance, housing subsidies, and medical care to their 50-cents-an-hour workers … AND they would (and do) try to justify their cruelty and greed by mouthing that poor people are moral defectives who fell into poverty because they don’t “work hard” and have the wrong “values.”

That’s what Republicans want to do to US, and to our CHILDREN, and our GRANDCHILDREN. They want to make affluence — and poverty — hereditary. They want to create a permanent slave-owning class; but to do that, they need to create a slave class. They have set about to do just that, right here in the “land of the free.” We know what selfish, greedy, cruel human beings will do when they get the chance: They will constitute themselves as a hereditary nobility with titles and privilege, and they will create “untouchable” classes, and they arrogate to themselves OWNERSHIP of other human beings and purport to possess a right to exercise absolute power over the lives of others.

I wrote to the Burner campaign a couple of weeks ago asking what community service she has done, or been a leader of. I also asked what her experience is in state politics. So far, this has been met with total silence.

Darcy has nothing. Nothing. She isn’t a community leader, she probably doesn’t even know what community she lives in except that is is with other rich people in big houses. She has no political experience. She tried business for awhile, and quit. She tried law school, dropped that.

Now you all want to send her to national office. And you think I am a wingnut? Keep sending her your money.

Just think Darcy was smart enough to spot a republican troll and didn’t respond or take the bait. I’d say she proved her leadership skills right there. Note how Janet S couldn’t provide any real evidence or in any other way answer my arguments. WEAK SHIT! If you’re the best the righties have to offer Janet S we can all relax. I shit turds with more brains than you!

POOP @ 24, you really can fly off the handle, can’t you? Did you go off your meds again?

The APs Harford stringer quotes empty speculations from an Associate Professor of Poly Sci at a college smaller than my high school, and you run with it.

To begin with, Lieberman is not going to lose the primary, so the whole speculation is moot. He’s being asked to speculate by his challenger as a campaign tactic. Get it? And despite your claims, Lieberman refuses to even consider it publicly. So some junior college debate club advisor desperate to see his name in the paper goes on record with this crap. So what?

And what if he did lose the primary? And what if he did run on the Jessie Ventura ticket? Try to picture Chris Dodd campaigning for Lamont. Try to picture Al Gore appearing in Hartford for a special $500 per seat showing of “An Inconvenient Truth” with all proceeds going to Lamont. Lieberman might even win. But he’d be burried under a mountain of debt, with no ability as an Independent to push forward legislation to support constituents who could help him with that debt. That’s not a very appealing prospect for a 64 year old, three term Senator.

I’m sure glad Bush is coming to show Washington how close he and ol’ Dave are. And I’m sure when Dave is done wiht his part of the bootlicking in our current “dabate” over the useless political-grandstanding-instead-of-wrking-to-solve-Amercia’s-problems of teh Iraq resolution, everyone will have an even beter idea.

What a wonderful idea those GOP Congresspeople had–to “stand up before the country and profess their undying admiration for Bush as commander in chief and for how ‘great’ they think the war is going.

Brilliant strategy. If you want a Democratically-controlled House come the fall.”

If you mean Ann Coulter, there’s still 29 people in this country who approve of her, and Jay Leno flew all of them to New York and had limo’d them to his studio last night.

I know this because my keen bunny ears detected 29 discrete claps. In fact, my rabbit hearing is so delicate, I can even tell you that only 18 of these were two hands clapping together, and the other 11 were left hands hitting left thighs, with muted right-handed rubbing sounds under pants audible from these seats. Based on this information, I conclude that Leno’s audience last night consisted of 18 Republican females and 11 Republican males.

Did you notice they didn’t show any camera shots of the audience last night? That’s because Leno didn’t want home viewers to see all the empty seats in the studio seating gallery. The hall was only about 15% full, and they had to fly in wingnuts from all over the country just to fill 29 seats with clap-on-cue morons.

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